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Man creates map with 150 years of recorded hurricanes put on it. [MASSIVE BUTT-FUCKTON HUGE IMAGE]

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[quote]A new map done up in glowing colors reveals the swirling paths hurricanes and tropical storms have tread across our planet since 1851. If it looks a little odd at first, it's because this hurricane map offers a unique perspective of the Earth; Antarctica is smack in the middle, and the rest of the planet unfurls around it like the petals of a tulip. The Americas are on the right, Asia is on the left; the storms plotted on the map grow brighter as their intensity increases. The effect is not only informative — [b]more than 150 years of hurricane data show that certain regions are consistently in the storms' crosshairs — but also arresting.[/b] Mapmaker John Nelson, the user experience and mapping manager for IDV Solutions, a data visualization company, said that this oddball point of view was the best way to tell the story of the data. [b]"When I put it onto a rectangular map it was neat looking, but a little bit disappointing," Nelson told OurAmazingPlanet. But the unorthodox, bottom-up perspective allowed the curving paths the storms make across the world's oceans to shine, he said.[/b] Nelson used U.S. government data on tropical storms and hurricanes from 1851 through 2010. A quick glance at the map shows that the number of storms leapt up in the latter half of the 20th century, though that's because of technological advances. With the advent of satellites and hurricane-hunting aircraft, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to see storms that their predecessors in earlier ages would have missed. Hurricane Chris, the first of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, is a perfect example. That storm stayed far out to sea from birth to death, and likely wouldn't have made it into the record in the first half of the 20th century. In addition, the dearth of storms in the Eastern and Southern Hemispheres is also a product of a lack of data. The United States began to add storms from these regions to the archive beginning only in 1978. The hurricane map is the latest in a series of maps Nelson has made that showcase the planet's natural phenomena in arresting ways. A map of the world's earthquakes since 1898 and a map of the rise in U.S. wildfires since 2001 also offer unique, wide-scale looks at natural disasters. You can see a super-size version of the hurricane map here. [/quote] [img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8303/7840356344_ee5421bc7e_o.jpg[/img]

I guess we have a new desktop wallpaper here! But seriously, that's just awesome.

Really shows how hurricanes form too

Its scary how many of those dots are bright green.

The shape of the map confuses my head since I'm not used to that type of layout.

I cant comprehend that map.

It's a hurricane made of hurricanes

is that supposed to be planet earth

It's Earth viewed from the South Pole.

is there a specific reason he used an obfuscated map layout?

The projection is kinda weird. I expected something like [url=http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/unlogo1blue.jpeg]this[/url] but from the south pole, but it goes all screwy once you get past the equator. Canada is fucking gigantic.

if it was such a huge image then just use thumbnail tags be glad it wasn't a png though some people would get really pissed

[QUOTE=meppers;37394874]is there a specific reason he used an obfuscated map layout?[/QUOTE] Probably to illustrate hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones travel in the same pattern along generally the same latitudes. Except that craziness around Australia. I've seen similar maps before but never from this perspective. [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] and then, you know, it says in the article: [quote]"When I put it onto a rectangular map it was neat looking, but a little bit disappointing," Nelson told OurAmazingPlanet. But the unorthodox, bottom-up perspective allowed the curving paths the storms make across the world's oceans to shine, he said.[/quote]

My neck hurts from viewing that.

Damn, South America, you ain't looking so well.

Is that the tumb'd image in the OP? if not, THUMB IT

the image of all hurricanes looks like a hurricane

That image isn't really that big...

Its funny how more than half of the United States is covered, we definitely get the worst of the hurricanes. [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37396638]That image isn't really that big...[/QUOTE] Its 5006x3105, its pretty big compared to the average sized picture.

[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;37396640]Its funny how more than half of the United States is covered, we definitely get the worst of the hurricanes. [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] Its 5006x3105, its pretty big compared to the average sized picture.[/QUOTE] Correct me if I'm wrong, but FP auto-resizes images, so the worst you might experience is slow load times

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37396726]Correct me if I'm wrong, but FP auto-resizes images, so the worst you might experience is slow load times[/QUOTE] It loaded instantly for me.

[QUOTE=YourFriendJoe;37394919]if it was such a huge image then just use thumbnail tags be glad it wasn't a png though some people would get really pissed[/QUOTE] Be glad it wasn't/isn't a .bmp. People's Data Plans would cap out. [editline]24th August 2012[/editline] Also, that one hurricane that formed in the middle over by Argentina was basically a Hipster hurricane over by itself.

Holy shit Antarctica looks WAYYY smaller than I thought it would be.

Reminds me of the US tornado map. [IMG_THUMB]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7090/7157010997_2a92fa603c_o.jpg[/IMG_THUMB]

I zoomed out to see the entire map. Holy crap you are all so tiny now

[QUOTE=mac338;37398568]Reminds me of the US tornado map. [IMG_THUMB]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7090/7157010997_2a92fa603c_o.jpg[/IMG_THUMB][/QUOTE] Superimpose them and you'll find that giant spinning wind is the south eastern United States arch nemesis.

can someone highlight with which continent is which? I'm tilting my head in different angles and im clueless to what is going on. and, Antarctica is so small rather than how it looks like in a rectangle map.

Is it just me, or does that look like one big hurricane

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